Wesley J. Smith

So, a pal and I go to see The Three Stooges last night: Woob! Woob! Woob! Woob!  I just wanted to forget the world and revisit my long lost boyhood when my friends and I would roar at the Stooges on TV after school.The movie was almost perfect. It really captured the spirit . . . . Continue Reading »

A Canadian pundit named Kelly McParland has a good critique of how IVF has devolved procreation into consumerist reproduction.  He writes in reaction to an American IVF clinic advertising sex selection, meaning that all embryos of the “wrong sex” become medical waste based on . . . . Continue Reading »

The Swiss are preparing the ground to ration health care. They don’t have enough doctors and many people can’t afford their share of the cost of treatments.  Then, a judge limited the money that could be spent on a patient’s care!  From the Swissinfo.ch story:Doctors . . . . Continue Reading »

I have a piece out in the Human Life Review decrying the “unrepentant bigotry” that allows people with profound disabilities to be denegrated as “skin bags” (as one example), or if profoundly cognitively disabled, as mere flora.  From “That Unrepentant . . . . Continue Reading »

Today is National Sign an Advance Directive Day, or something like that. And the stories are out trying to stimulate us to action. As I have noticed when proposals to legalize assisted suicide are reported, they are all the same. It’s cookie cutter journalism: Start with a horror . . . . Continue Reading »

Meanwhile, at the suicide swimming . . . . Continue Reading »

What happens when an ”animal ”rights/radical environmentalist learns the facts of . . . . Continue Reading »

Wow. Human studies—an essential part of bringing treatments to the clinic—show that ultra sound can successfully treat prostate cancer. From the Telegraph story:A new treatment for prostate cancer can rid the disease from nine in ten men without debilitating side effects, a study has . . . . Continue Reading »

The abuse wouldn’t just be about . . . . Continue Reading »

It never ceases to amaze me how people fail to connect dots.  In recent weeks, we’ve seen a big push to legalize euthansia in Quebec. Yet, as a medical advisory counsel has recommended turning killing into a legal ”medical treatment,” the province is is short . . . . Continue Reading »